Urban Design
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MOV Upcycled Urbanism, Second Workshop – March 10th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Hallucinating in Public: creating environments that are beautiful and...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Jane Jacob on Visual Order, Art & Life
A short reading from The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. This copy published by Vintage Books, copyright 1961. Chapter 19, Visual...
By Yuri Artibise -
Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series, March 3rd
Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series Sunday, March 3rd – 2:00PM – 4:00PM @ MOV (1100 Chestnut St)Â...
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Granville Island: 40 Years Later – Authenticity that Ages Gracefully
VHF would like to thank our guest writer for this weeks article Paul Nursey, Vice-President, Strategy and Corporate Communications at the Canadian...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Mark Kingwell on Public Space
At the annual Warren Gill Memorial Lecture held last Thursday at SFU Woodwards, Mark Kingwell was the epitome of the public intellectual. A philosophy...
By Katherine Burnett -
Video Vancouver: Built To Last
“Built to Last” won first place in The Congress for the New Urbanism CNU 17 video contest. This short film explores the connection between New...
By Caroline Toth -
Victoria’s Intersecting Municipalities
Last Wednesday my recycling didn’t get picked up. Wednesday is usually recycling day, but this time the truck didn’t show up. This happens fairly often...
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Video Vancouver: Placemaking Mistakes Dance
Using dance to illustrate city planning concepts.
By Yuri Artibise -
Poster campaign promotes 50 ideas for a new city
Check out these amazing posters that were put up all over New York City to help promote ideas for a new city. The project was launched and hosted by Urban...
By Jonathan Zettel -
VPSN: Robson Square. Us + You + Summertime. Want to Collaborate?
The City of Vancouver has recently posted a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEOI) related to the summertime activation of the 800-block of Robson...
By Spacing -
Retrofitting Suburbia
The re-population of major urban centres in North America is a great success story of innovative thinking and good design. From the ruins of the...
By Lenore Newman -
Urban Planet: Barcelona and London among cities in competition to share innovative urban solutions
Cities from around the world have answered the call for innovative and sustainable solutions to urban problems. Barcelona, Boston, Christchurch, London...
By Jonathan Zettel